Trump: EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt Resigns

Scott Pruitt, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, answers a question during the Concordia Summit in Manhattan, New York, U.S., Sept. 19, 2017. Reuters/Jeenah Moon

President Donald Trump announced on July 5 that Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt has resigned.

“I have accepted the resignation of Scott Pruitt as the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Within the Agency Scott has done an outstanding job, and I will always be thankful to him for this,” Trump wrote on Twitter.